A Kano State High Court has sentenced Abdulmalik Tanko, kidnapper and killer of 6-year-old schoolgirl, Hanifa Abubakar, to death by hanging.
Justice Usman Na'aba, who gave the sentence, also slammed a five-year jail term on the murderer for all the five charges levelled against him.
TheFact Daily recalls that Hanifa, who...
A former bank cashier, alongside his wife and mother-in-law, have been convicted and sentenced to sixty years imprisonment for conspiracy and stealing.
Ebenezer Adeolu Alonge, and his wife and mother-in-law, Isakunle Olamide Oyinlola, and Isakunle Eunice Moradeke, respectively, were convicted and sentenced today, 23July, by Justice Adekanye Ogunmoye of Ekiti...
A former Special Assistant to the Chairman of Giwa Local Government Area of Kaduna State, Hassan Dauda, has been sentenced to twelve years imprisonment for his involvement in a N6.3 million Hajj fraud.
Dauda, who was charged before the Kaduna State High Court by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other...
The Supreme Court Declared Ahmadu Fintiri of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the Duly Elected Governor of Adamawa State.
A five-member panel led by Justice John Okoro delivered the judgment on Wednesday, January 31, 2024.
The apex court dismissed the appeal filed by the governorship candidate of the All Progressives...
The family of Late Mr Michael Usifo Ataga has engaged the services of fiery Constitutional Lawyer and renowned Human Rights Activist, Chief Mike Ozekhome, (SAN), to protect and defend the its interests and and that of his teeming friends, admirers, kinsmen, and business associates, to ensure that justice is duly...
Nigerian Navy’s newest Offshore Survey Vessel, NNS LANA, has today begun her homeward journey to Nigeria from France.
According to the Nigerian Navy's Director of Information, Commodore Suleiman Dahun, the voyage which began at about 5:13pm Nigerian Time, will include Port visits to Lisbon, Las Palmas, Banjul and Tema-Ghana. The...
An Abuja Federal High Court has discharged and acquitted Ochuko Momoh, wife of the former Managing Director of Pipelines and Products Marketing Company (PPMC), Haruna Momoh, of a N3bn fraud
TheFact Daily reports that in a judgment on Thursday, Justice Taiwo Taiwo acquitted Ochuko and five others on money laundering...
A former Local Government Area (LGA) chairman in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, has been sentenced to one year imprisonment for making false claims to an investigator.
Alhassan Yahaya Bagudu, who was the former chairman of Kaiama Local Government Area in Kwara State, was sentenced by Justice M. AbdulGarfa of...
The federal government of Nigeria has declared that it won’t immediately pay the ₦20billion awarded against it by the court over the invasion of Sunday Igboho’s residence by operatives of the Department of State Services, DSS.
Disclosing this earlier today, September 17, in an interview granted to the News Agency...
Chief Judge of Akwa Ibom, Ekaette Obot has sentenced a human right lawyer, Inibehe Effiong, to one month imprisonment over perceived contempt of court.
Effiong who alleged in a Twitter thread on Wednesday, said the judge sent him to prison when he came to court to defend Leo Ekpenyong, a...
